Quotes About Language

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

For 'Dum Maro Dum,' I had a diction tutor, as I had to get rid of my Hyderabadi Hindi and learn Goan Hindi. It wasn't easy, because these two kinds of Hindi were mutually incompatible. I had to unlearn one kind of Hindi and then learn a new kind.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.